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| An Audiophile's journey Rwwear, FWIW they were never one of our dealers.The Fertin full-range driver is an extremely high quality driver, yet it is not driven well by a 'constant voltage' amplifier like the Krell. The manufacturer specifies 'current source' amplifiers fo... | |
| An Audiophile's journey Rwwear, what dealer were you with? | |
| Pioneer sx-636 vintage reciever? Pioneer always made reliable receivers and the SX series was no exception (I've serviced hundreds of them). However you have to understand that the unit is not 'permanent', in that the filter capacitors in the power supply need to be replaced, and... | |
| An Audiophile's journey Rwwear, given the example you gave, any amp can drive any speaker. However, in the context of what has become high end audio, it will not always drive the speaker *well*. Even a set of our smallest amps can drive a set of the old Apogee Full Range... | |
| An Audiophile's journey No amp comes close... seehttp://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.html | |
| An Audiophile's journey I want an amp that is not speaker dependent.Ah, the holy grail... so far, there is no such thing. | |
| An Audiophile's journey Twoleftears, I too have been of the opinion that the rise of SETs had a lot to do with bad digital. In the meantime, SETs established themselves quite apart from that.Although I have heard some very nice class D, I have yet to hear one that is on ... | |
| Single driver speakers - opinions So far no-one has mentioned PHY or Fertin, both from France. These drivers are arguably the cream of the crop in high efficiency 'full range' drivers. The PHY is featured in the Ocellia loudspeaker, one of the few that can really get down to 40Hz ... | |
| Atma-Sphere S-30 MK3 Maril555, we did run into some problems with silver-plated wire and it was both brightness *and* dullness! A lot seems to depend on the wire- its gauge, how its extruded, purity, the thickness of the silver plate, etc. We've heard some that are ju... | |
| Atma-Sphere S-30 MK3 I suppose I should clarify a few things, after some emails I got regarding this thread.With regard to options: Being audiophiles ourselves, and inveterate tinkers, we know the temptation to look under the hood and see what can be hopped up. That's... | |
| Which part reduces surface noise most? Joelv, if you saw the earlier thread from June, although the stylus profile does a lot, any ticks and pops it picks up are going to be part of the signal. It is the interaction between the preamp and the cartridge that will 'put the noise in anoth... | |
| Quads vs Sound Labs vs Maggie 20.1 The Quad 63s are great if you want fabulous transparency but have some budget constraints. They are easy to drive with most tube amplifiers; transistors will be bright and free of bass.The big Sound Labs (I guessing- U1s? A1s?) are harder to drive... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Robert Fulton founded the modern interconnect and speaker cable industry- before him there was no-one. Of course he was thought of as a snake oil salesman, but many of his claims are now borne out by the continued existence of the cable industry i... | |
| Most transparent amp you've heard? Sean and Pubul57, if transparency is what you crave (lack of distortion, I'll get to that in a bit), then it is to your advantage to keep the impedance of the speaker as high as possible. This is true regardless of the amplifier technology, tube, ... | |
| Cartridge aging and tip wear symtoms? Diamonds wear very slowly! By the time a diamond would have any significant wear, you would have noticed mistracking *long* before! Record wear is primarily caused by mistracking- but rarely by a worn stylus! Far more common issues are poor tone a... |